Federer to tackle ‘crisis’ on his own for now

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A couple of hours before Roger Federer’s latest and most peculiar reverse last week, Tony Roche spotted me beside the practice court and, as ever, was keen to indulge in the latest tennis gossip. Little did we know that the coach was about to become the hottest piece of it.

Roche’s parting with Federer after a remarkable period together of 25 titles, six of them grand-slam tournaments, and an overall record of 192 wins and 13 defeats, has come at another of those pointed moments in the career of the 25-year-old Swiss. Two weeks before the French Open, a tournament